RISE Awards Students With Certificates and T Shirts
RISE Scholastic Achievements, Inc. Board of Directors awards the 2018 high school students with certificates of achievement and RISE T-Shirts.
Quilting For A Cause: Honoring High School Graduates
September 2018, the Sewing Bee ladies from Desert Hills Lutheran Church in Green Valley AZ had the pleasure of creating a special quilt for Diana Leslie Nava Martinez, a student [...]
Volunteers Teach Kids Sewing Skills
On September 8 Norma Baker from Desert Hills Lutheran Church in Green Valley organized and led a group of 6 on an educational trip to Casa Vida Nueva Para Niños [...]
October 2017 Visit Trip
“RISE is a Life changing event!” This comment was heard multiple times during our October 14, 2017 trip to the “Home for Children.” The big news was that RISE Scholastic Achievements, [...]
Quilting Blankets and Christmas Pillow Cases
In 2015, the Mission Quilts group from Valley Presbyterian Church in Green Valley AZ, was laser focused on completing 25 quilts for the children living at CVN. The photo shows [...]
Kids Helping Kids
Maya is an 11 year-old girl from Tucson who found out about CVN on the Valley Presbyterian Church web site. She organized a huge school-wide clothing drive at Canyon View [...]
Celebrating Birthdays
Earl and Carol Yarborough identify the children who have birthdays around Valley Presbyterian Church's scheduled trip dates, then celebrate their birthdays by provided them gifts and a large birthday cake. [...]
Solar Project
Challenge: Casa Vida Nueva Para Niños A.C. (CVN) is located South West of Nogales, Sonora MX and miles away from any city supplied electrical system. They used gasoline generators [...]
Water Well Update
Turning a faucet and having water come out is an everyday expectation for Americans, but it is a luxury for many in the world. CVN had to rely on [...]
Internet Comes To CVN
CVN is in a rural area of Sonora, miles off the main road without access to municipal water or electricity. But the internet has arrived thanks to donors who funded [...]